Emotional intelligence influence on predominant learning styles of Art modality high-school students
Abstract
The goal of this research is to assess the relationship between two components of emotional intelligence (EI), namely selfawareness (SA) and self-motivation (SM), and dominant learning styles of secondyear art high-school students in Murcia. An empirical study involving 43 students was carried out. The method used was descriptive. Three questionnaires were applied: the CHAEA (Honey-Alonso learning styles questionnaire) and two more questionnaires, taken from the “Handbook of Educational Implications of Emotional Intelligence”, to assess the level of knowledge of students about their self-awareness and their self-motivation. The final results indicate that there is no statistically significant causal relationship between the scores obtained among the different learning styles and the levels of self-consciousness and self-motivation, once data were applied ANOVA, t-Student, and correlation and regression analyses. Scarce correlation between the different learning styles and self-consciousness and self-motivation was found, ranging from .06 to .31. We conclude that high-quality learning can only be accomplished whenever every teaching modality adapts to every learning style, so that students can develop all their emotional competences. This is the only way to educational excellence.
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